Faculty & Staff By Last Name

Faculty & Staff By Last Name

Mihaela A Poplicher

Associate Professor of Mathematics & Undergraduate Program Director, teaching, researching and performing service as included below.

Education

Ph D, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 1997 (Functional Analysis
(minor in College Teaching)).

Master in Mathematics, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, 1985 (Mathematics).

Research Information

Research Interests

Research Interests:

Functional Analysis, Operator Theory;

Teaching of Mathematics

Research in Progress
I am continuing the work started in my Ph D dissertation by studying more about Holomorphic Spaces and operators acting on them. I am focusing on the de Brange Spaces and their invariance under the action of some operators (Toeplitz, Hankel, composition) or adjoints of operators.
A couple of new directions I am expanding my research into are: Differential Equations, Quadrature Domains,Geometric Analysis.
I am also studying new ways of teaching mathematics: PBL (Problem-Based Learning) group-work, the use of technology.

Recently, I have started work on Ilieff-Sendov Conjecture.

Conferences and Presentations

I have given talks and participated in many workshops, seminars and conferences, the last ones being:

Honors & Awards

. Awards & Grants
• “Teacher Professional Development Mathematics Topics Foundational to Calculus” 2005-2007 (grant of $224,000 from the Ohio Department of Education. I am the principal investigator and my collaborators are Joy Moore and Ted Fowler;) (to be considered under “Service”)
• UC Professional Development Individual Grant ($2225 to be used for attending the Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Antonio, TX in January 2006);
• UC Professional Development Individual Grant ($2365 to be used in 2010);
• UC Professional Development PBL team 2002, 2003, 2004 (each year, each participant got $1000, plus the team got $5000);
• IMSA (Illinois Mathematical Sciences Academy) Award of Excellence for Caring to Challenge, 2001;
I am very proud of getting this last award. It came for my work with a very gifted young student, Jady Hsin from Carbondale, Illinois. He got several awards for mathematical presentations and competitions, for which I helped him prepare. I have included Jady’s email letter and the letter from IMSA in my dossier. It was a real pleasure for me to work with this very young and incredibly motivated student.
• Summer Research Fellowship for Graduate Students, University of New Hampshire (1993, 1994, 1995.)
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Experience & Service

Work Experience

1991 to 1997, Graduate Student/Teaching Assistant, Mathematics Department, University of New Hampshire.